by Barbara Chase-Riboud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782724239645
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«La grande sultane» is the historical novel by Barbara Chase-Riboud, published by France Loisirs in paperback (378 pages, in French).
The narrative follows a young Creole woman who becomes the mother of the Ottoman sultan Mahmud II and shows the imperial harem as a sacred space of servitude, where women survive amid betrayals and power struggles. Historical novel set in the 19th-century Ottoman Empire.
The English original, Valide: A Novel of the Harem, was published in 1986; this French edition dates from 1988 and is catalogued as historical fiction.
For readers interested in the Ottoman Empire, the harem, and the role of women at court.
Barbara Chase-Riboud is an American and French visual artist, sculptor, novelist, and poet.
